Paris got tangled up with Nebraska's Catheryn Redmon going for a rebound 32 seconds into the game. Paris fell hard and dinged her right knee.

"It hurt. I just wanted to cry," she said.

Paris stayed on the floor for a few extra moments, walked gingerly to the end of the bench and stretched out her right leg. It wasn't long before she told Oklahoma coach Sherri Coale she was ready to re-enter the game.

"I know her so well that I could tell she wasn't exactly right and she just needed to come out for a second," Coale said. "We've seen her go down a few times in practice with an ankle. I know the difference."

Paris moved around just fine when she came back. She had three offensive rebounds on one possession before putting back her own miss, and she had six rebounds in her first two minutes of playing time.

Paris, who needed only 12 minutes on the court to secure another of her double-doubles, finished with a career-high 12 offensive rebounds -- a statistic that left Nebraska coach Connie Yori stunned.

"I don't know if I've ever been part of a game where somebody gets 12 offensive rebounds individually. I can't remember that happening ever in my career," said Yori, a head coach for 19 years.

Nebraska was hamstrung defensively against the 6-4 Paris. The Huskers' two top post players, two-time All-Big 12 pick Kelsey Griffin and Nikki Bober, are out with season-ending injuries. That left the 6-foot-3 Redmon and 6-2 Cory Montgomery to take turns trying to match up with her.

"We have two post players of any size right now, and one of the keys to the game was we needed to stay out of foul trouble," Yori said. "Well, we did that, but then we didn't guard her. We didn't put a body on her, and she got too many easy touches right at the rim that are going to be baskets."

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